Sorja
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Posted - 2005.07.11 03:08:00 -
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Many misconceptions in this thread.
First off, those who say level 4 missions were easy in a Raven need a reality check. I wish CCP would publish how many ships were destroyed before the patch in level 4 missions. Every single pilot I know that did those misisons lost at least a ship and many didn't even try it before monthes training while some still think you could do all level 4 with 800,000 skillpoints.
It just isn't true.
Not all pilots are *****s, and I know of very good pilots that got spanked.
Second off, missions were indeed an alternative to mining.
CCP has forced people to specialize (which is a very bad thing, IMHO), so how could one be a combat pilot and at the same time have industry, trade and whatnot skills at efficient levels?
Missions were the cash cow for combat pilots and I for one am not ashamed to have run countless missions to build myself a wallet and replace my PvP losses.
I dispise the jealous guys, instead of yelling for a raven nerf, they should have asked for spawns being better distributed so they don't spawn on your head in deadspace (deadspace being another thing I don't like at all in this game).
This way, all ship types could have completed the missions equally.
But no, the most short-sighted move was to call for a nerf.
Third off, I live in 0.0 since I can't stand Empire, it's crowd and it's silly carebear wars, and I can't stand NPCing.
It's BORING!
I've did it like everybody else, chaining spawns for hours on end: BORING!
Missions are a bit more entertaining.
Fourth off, there is abosolutely no risk NPCing/mining in 0.0.
Zero, zip, nada.
The spawns, even the hardest, are incredebily easy, and other ships than the raven had an easier time chaining them, namely the apoc which doesn't need to build ammo and has an every-empty cargohold.
Enemies?
C'mon, let's be serious, the remote regions are empty and you know everybody. If the local ever gets nerfed (which I hope) it will be another story, but for now I feel safer in 0.0 than in 0.4.
Fifth off, missions were far less rewarding than some people want to believe, repeating the absurdities they read on the boards.
The good point about missions is that they sometimes gave some cool items, which they still do I guess.
But you could never get as rich with missions than with the (completely broken) BPO lottery or arkonor mining.
Many changes in this patch were uncalled for, and vastly overdone, IMO.
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